The World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy LifeWorld Health Organization, 2002 - 248 pages The World Health Report 2002 measures the amount of disease, disability, and health in the world today that can be attributed to some of the most important risks to human health. Even more importantly, it also calculates how much of this present burden could be avoided in the next 10 years. The World Health Report 2002 represents one of the largest research projects ever undertaken by WHO, in collaboration with experts worldwide. Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of WHO, describes this report as a wake up call to the global community. The report quantifies some of the most important risks to human health and examines a range of methods to reduce them. The ultimate goal is to help governments of all countries to lower major risks to health, and thereby raise the healthy life expectancy of their populations. The risk factors range from underweight, unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene to high blood pressure, raised cholesterol, and obesity. The report's findings give an intriguing - and alarming - insight into not just the current causes of disease and death and the factors underlying them, but also into human patterns of living and how some may be changing around the world while others remain dangerously unchanged. Dr Brundtland says: This report helps every country in the world to see what measures it can take to reduce risks and promote healthy life for its own population. |
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... studies of distribution shifting and cardiovascular disease in Finland and Japan 132 138 148 Figure 6.2 Implementing risk prevention 149 BOXES Box 1.1 Countries endorse the focus on risks to health 6 Box 2.1 What does risk mean ? 11 Box ...
... studies : for example , chemical X causes liver damage . • Exposure assessment combines data on the distribution and concentrations of pollution in the environment with information on behaviour and physiology to estimate the amount of ...
... studies have shown reduced morbidity and delayed mortality among people who are so- cially integrated . The quality of social relation- ships in the home ( parent - child relations and spousal ties ) and the workplace ( employer ...
... Studies Collaboration . Note : The distributions of blood pressure , cholesterol and body mass index are plotted for 14 different populations in the top panel , showing that all are bell - shaped . As a consequence , lower mean ...
... Studies may have shown that they could be reduced by 20 % by using headlights in daytime , 40 % by stricter speed lim- its , 50 % by installing more traffic lights , and 90 % by creating speed bumps . As a further example consider a ...